Steaming Surly Rollergeddon

Just checked emails.

SJS have dispatched parts, might be on for the weekend.
Tempted to pre-strip Dolan, but i need it intact for the moment.

Also had 2 emails from PayPal, something is wrong with my account and they have limited access.
Funny thing is........ i don't have a PayPal account, i smell Phish :)

Just found the tracker on Royal Mail, not enroute yet :(

Bit of the madness behind the method.

Saved this from a hedge circa 2010. Raleigh Tempest of the finest gas pipe ready for the scrappies
All that was save-able was the frame/HS/fork/seat post/calipers, bought new wheels, robbed chainset from another bike.
Raced a SSEC, came joint 4th, got outed as a "Fucking Ringer" by the actual Scottish riders from Scotland ( i entered as a jock to get in, technicaly true, on dads side of the family)
Seat post (still got it) is a taped up XCR suspension post which proved to be a bit high for me, taped up as it's 25mm in what could be 25.4mm frame.

Had fun, still have bike, it won't die, but it's always been a bit flappy in corners at speed, and trying to jump things, and dosen't stop very well.

Post race game involved the Tempest being incapable of moving in a straight line. Bets got placed on my head tube detaching itself and people started peeling Buff stickers off as it was reckoned they where holding the frame together.
A strip and rebuild and new headset bearings saved it.

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Roll on a couple of years and via Charlie i end up in the Clunker Classic drunk death race which just happens to be several miles from home.
Heard rumours of it for years........
Managed 2 attempts.
1) Managed 2nd, thought i had won, Vince was most of the way through his pint at the bar finish line.......... i pedalled my tits off and never saw him, Vince had won several times before, and Vinces bikes had won with someone else on it.

Pretty much the same, shit brakes, milk carton mudguards, DH saddle slammed to top tube as it was all downhill.........apart from the long walk up.

2) Actually got up front and first for a few seconds but the flappy frame and dicky overtaking move through rocks mullered the front wheel, fixed flat, took off, pinch flatted, did last 2 miles on flat front at speed to 22nd

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You will also note the quick draw spanner on seat tube, and a big fuck off zip-tie on the nose of the saddle to keep it level as the clamp had stripped.

This is when i started looking at 1" 1/8 steerer frames, anything a bit more burly than old skinny steel tubes.
Rollins is going to get ridden hard :)

Checked tracker.
Shiny things have escaped Somerset into Avon.
Just need to zip down the M4/M25/M26/M20 into kent.

Cat has decreed that all Orange are mine (may negotiate for a tin of Whiskers)
Cat is sleeping under Rollins on guard duty.

In other news Hoke and his L96 may or may not be alive........

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YEEEESSSSS

stuffs have arrived.
might just fit the BB tonight.

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Hmmmmm
Fitted BB

Dry test fit was smooth in. Greased up and spannered in, popped the new crank bolts in to test threads, also smooth fitting.

UN55 BB, 68mm shell, 107mm spindle, no crank bolts supplied, 290grams

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This thread is up there with the best.

Never used stick on cable guides.

M-part jobbies, bigger than expected, 5mm cable is free fitting so fatter cable won't be a problem.

I think i will wait and set up the brakes and then attach the guides for best cable run. I have had a few bikes with less than ideal cable guide placement.

Saturday night will be stripping and cleaning parts from the Dolan.
Might get it done and have a test ride on Sunday.

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Cross over point.

Dolan FXE is stripped and donor parts being sorted.

Dolan is not going out gracefully and tried to take a finger tip with it, a slightly messy divorce, but expected some pain.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/294112/

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Parts to be cleaned up, and parts bin raiding and some kitchen scales action to come.

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Deep cleaning the chain or totally ruining it.

Trying vinegar, dosen't show in the photo, but it's gently fizzing/bubbling away in the sun.

:)

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Battered old cranks.

There is a circle with 89 stamped on it, i guess this is the date stamp as they came from a Raleigh Record sprint i got in the 90's (second hand)
Suntour SR's 170mm, they have seen some action and weigh in at 546grams

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The old BB, might just shove this in the parts bin.

A cheapie £9.99 VP components 68mm shell x 118mm spindle.
Knocked out a couple hundred miles over last several months, it's been quiet and reliable and is still fully useable.

Weighed it in at 281 grams for the BB and the supplied crank bolts are another 32 grams so it's actually lighter than the shorter spindle Shimano UN55 107mm.

Hopefully Shimano old school reliability still applies to square taper BB's :)

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Swap out the mismatched parts bin chain ring bolts for a shiny new SS set from SJS

I got these for the Dolan but never got round to fitting them.

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Cleaned all surfaces and cranks went on smoothly. New cheapo 8mm allen key crank bolts in place.

So far so good, haven't tried to lop any bits of finger off yet.

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118mm seems awfully long for a 43mm chainline, did you run this length before? Or do those cranks carry the chainring inbound by a fair margin?

The Shimano now fitted to Rollins is 107 the 118 came off the Dolan and was a case of shortest length in shop i got it from when i got it.
I did run the ring on the inside and chainline was ok on the Dolan.
Looks like i can go shorter on Rollins, but i am using an old double chainset not a SS/Track set. 107 was the shortest i found on UN55 and i wasn't sure if shorter would cause issues with the current chainset.
Will slip the wheel in later and eye it up.

Might go Sugino later on, coming from mountain bikes i am used to wide spindles and haven't had a chainline issue. Just working through things

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I haven't fully tight'end the crank bolts yet so that gap will close a fraction more.

Draped a chain over the ring.

All loose fitted still.
In SS freewheel, didn't look to bad.
In fixed, it could come in a bit but more out than SS.
I can move the chainring to the inside of the tab so should be able to dial in chain line better later on.

Stick on 3m M-Part cable guides and brake cables cut.

Monster de rigur Surly spacer stack in situ, i don't have enough spacers :) This will obvs be trimmed down lots as Surlys always come with super long steerers on the forks.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58KW6M96srg

It Lives.
It moves.
It Rolls.
It was slient.
It was smooth.
It fitted me.
It needs loads of fine tuning.
It needs weighing of all the things.
It lives.

My finger i tried to chop off dosen't hurt so much, maybe Rollins has healed it :)

A very gentle quick pootle around the block :)

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Couldn't set the headset preload properly as too much steerer tube, seat post a bit low, but it just felt right.

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